I suspect a lot of people's child(ren) will test a little lower because from posts I've read in the past a lot of people don't agree with Ruf's alignment of levels. Some have even argued that their child is in DYS which means the child has to be profoundly gifted but Ruf only categorizes them as a level 4.

And yes I paid for the assessment and did it really to answer my own question of where Ruf would classify my child by her standards; basically, I did it more for curiosity about my interpretation of her book. I would definitely need to pay for an IQ test if I wanted to really get into it all, but like I stated; I have no plans at this point to do so, because we are happy with our school choice at the moment. If this changes and we need to move DD we will have no problem taking the steps of testing her. But from the assessment I received about DD, I didn't find it off base.